WDSU.com Cassie Schirm, Investigative Reporter The latest Inspector General report uncovers concerns about financial expenditures from the mayor’s shuttered nonprofit Forward Together New Orleans. After serious allegations of ethical misconduct, the IG subpoenaed the organization’s financials and its conversation with city leaders. What the IG found is there were conflicts of interest regarding how money...
nola.com BY BEN MYERS | Staff writer The New Orleans City Council on Thursday adopted a series of measures aimed at preventing conflicts of interest and fraud in city contracts, a response to the “smart cities” scandal that erupted at City Hall two years ago. The ordinances, which passed unanimously, require city employees to include all types...
nola.com BY JEFF ADELSON | Staff writer The Orleans Parish Assessor’s Office and the city’s Office of Inspector General found hundreds of improper homestead exemptions and removed them from the property tax rolls last year, Assessor Erroll Williams announced Wednesday. The clean-up included the discovery of numerous properties receiving the exemption even though the owner...
updated: 6:23 PM CST Jan 10, 2024 Cassie Schirm, Investigative Reporter NEW ORLEANS — False swearing, maintaining false public documents and bid rigging that is what the Office of Inspector General and the City Council is trying to fight with new legislation after the Inspector General says all that happened with the abandoned “smart cities”...
wdsu.com Aubry Killion Investigative Reporter Updated: 6:50 PM CDT Nov 1, 2023 NEW ORLEANS —A bombshell update to a WDSU Investigation. WDSU Investigates first reported Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson spent more than $18,000 to house high-ranking employees in high-end hotel rooms for Carnival 2023. The report says 90 room nights were paid for. The...
By JOSEPH CRANNEY | Staff writer – Nov 1, 2023 More than $18,000 was spent on a combined 90 nights at the Omni Royal Orleans Hotel. Taxpayers paid for empty rooms for 53 of those nights. Continue Reading
wwl By Chris Miller A New Orleans inspector general report finds the sheriff’s expenditures for hotel rooms at the Royal Sonesta last Mardi Gras to be “wasteful and unnecessary.” The sheriff’s office spent $18,000 for the rooms, for a total of 90 nights. When news of the sheriff’s use of hotel rooms first became public, the...
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nola.com BY BEN MYERS | Staff writer New Orleans mayors will no longer have access to a city-controlled apartment in Jackson Square after City Council members on Thursday quashed Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s veto of an ordinance ending the longtime perk. With a 5-2 vote, the City Council upheld a measure requiring that the French Market...
wdsu.com Updated: 8:58 AM CDT Aug 18, 2023 Cassie Schirm, Investigative Reporter The City of New Orleans is being fined by the Municipal Police Employee Retirement System (MPERS) for $38 million over the next 15 years due to a drastic drop in New Orleans Police Department officers. State law requires that if a department...
